ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,502, issued on March 17, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Delivery fee calculation device" was invented by Mihoko Homma (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a case where delivery is completed, an input of a delivery destination site work amount is performed, and in a case where the delivery destination site work amount is input, a calculation unit calculates the delivery fee based on a current delivery record. In addition, a prediction unit predicts the delivery fee based on a past delivery record. Next, the two delivery fees (the delivery fee calculated by the calculation unit and the delivery fee predicted by the predi...